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G. W. STREET.

MACHINE FOR CHARGING FIRE WORKS.

No. 450,982. Patented Apr. 21,1891..

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GEORGE V. STREET, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN OR TO THE UNEXOELLED FIRElVORKS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR CHARGING FIRE-WORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 450,982, dated April 21, 1891.

Application filed November 28, 1890. Serial No. 372,911. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern: in that shown in Fig. 2. The cams N have Be it known that I, GEORGE XV. STREET, a grooves P, into which enter pins Q on the bar citizen of the United States, residing at New K, and when the cams N are in the position York, in the county and State of New York, shown in Fig. 1 they hold the bar K and 5 have invented new and useful Improvements coreslin their inoperative position. Bymovin Machines for Charging Fire-\Vorks, of ing the cams N to the position shown in Fig. which the following is a specification. 2 the bar K and cores I are moved to their This invention relates to a machine by operative posit-ion, and are held there by said which rockets or other fire-works are filled; cams.

[O and the invention consists in the details of What I claim as new, and desire to secure construction set forth in the following speciby Letters Patent, is fication and claims and illustrated in the an- 1. The combination,with a supporting-base nexed drawings, in which- R, the spindle E resting thereupon, and the Figure l is a side elevation of a chargingblock B, having a filling-opening O, of a re- [5 machine with the cores in their inoperative ciprocating ramming-bar F, a spring yieldposition. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 ing hollow rammer G, movable on the recipwith the cores in their operative position. rocating ramming-bar, a core I, movable in Fig. 3 is a sectional end elevation of Fig. 1. the hollow ram mer, a bar K. connected with In the drawings, the letter A indicates a the core, and lever mechanism for holding 20 frame or support having a vertical movable the core-carrying bar in an elevated position,

block B, having fillingopenings C. The cases substantially as described. D are placed under the block B, and the 2. The combination, witha supporting-base charge is passed through the openings 0 into R, the frame A, the spindles E, resting on the the cases. The cases are placed over the spinsupporting-base, and a verticallymovable 25 dles E,which are fixed in the stationary base block 13, having filling-openings O, of a ram- R. A ramming-bar F is provided with holming-bar F, rising and falling on the frame, low rammers G, and as said hollow rammers a series of spring yielding hollow rammers can pass over the spindles E the charge in moving on the ramming-bar,a series of cores the shell can be thoroughly rammed by said I, movable in the hollow rammers, and a bar hollow rammers to the extent of the spindle. K, connecting theupper ends of the cores for The rammers G have springs H, which presimultaneously lifting the latter, substanvent the rammers from exerting excessive tially as described. force. Above the spindle E the charge must 3. A machine for charging fire-works, probe rammed by a solid rammer. For this purvided with hollow rammers, with cores for 5 pose the rammers Ghave cores 1. hen the said rammers, locking-levers for locking the cores are in their operative position, as shown cores in their operative and inoperative pcin Fig. 2, said cores fill the rammers G so as to sitions, and a spring connected to said levers make a practically solid ran-liner. The cores for holding the latter in position either up or are secured to a bar K, and a lock or looking down, substantially as described. 0 device serves to secure the bar K, with the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set cores I, either in their inoperative position, my hand in the presence of two subscribing as shown in Fig. 1, or in their operative posiwitnesses. tion, as shown in Fig. 2. The locking device, as shown, consists of levers or arms L, ful- 45 crumed at M to the rammer-bar F, and hav- WVitnesses:

ing cams or blocks N. A spring 0 holds the 11.0. HAUFF, levers in the position shown in Fig. 1, as also E. F. KASTENHUBER.

GEORGE \V. STREET. 

